Legislation – The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Part 8Amendment to the National Health Service Pension Schemes (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023
Amendment of regulation 1242.
(1)
Regulation 12 (election for 2015 scheme benefits: deferred choice members and deceased members) is amended as follows.
(2)
In paragraph (4), at the beginning, for “Where” substitute “Subject to paragraphs (4A) and (4B), where”
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(3)
“(4A)
A deferred choice election made by a deferred choice member or a designated person in the circumstances described in paragraph (2)(b)(iii) may be revoked by that person—
(a)
at any time before the cancellation deadline, and
(b)
by notice in writing and in such form and including such further information as the scheme manager requires.
(4B)
Where the scheme manager receives, before the cancellation deadline, notice that a deferred choice member has died—
(a)
any deferred choice election made by a deferred choice member or a designated person in the circumstances described in paragraph (2)(b)(iii) lapses, and
(b)
any deferred choice election period that has begun (whether or not it has also ended) is to be treated as if it had never begun (or ended) and accordingly, a new deferred choice election period may begin (see paragraph (8) and regulation 2(1)).
(4C)
In paragraphs (4A) and (4B), the “cancellation deadline” means—
(a)
the beginning of the day two weeks before the day on which any benefits have become payable to or in respect of the member after the end of the deferred choice election period, or
(b)
such later time before the day on which any benefits have become payable to or in respect of the member after the end of the deferred choice election period as the scheme manager considers reasonable in all the circumstances of the case.”.